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Online Collections

On August 13, 1927 aviation hero Charles A. Lindbergh visited Chicago. This photograph, from the Chicago Daily News online collection at the Library of Congress, shows Lindbergh riding with Mayor William Hale Thompson onto the field at Soldier Field. Thompson is turning around and looking to the right of the camera. The Library of Congress did not date the photograph, but a search in the SXU Library's historical Chicago Tribune files found the complete story.

Chicago Daily News. The Library of Congress and Chicago Historical Museum have made available online 55,000 images originally published in the Chicago Daily News. The images date from 1902-1933, and cover a wide array of topics.

Chicago on Fire. See the path of the great fire and read accounts of the people who lived through it, from PBS.

City maps depicting individual buildings to panoramic views of large urban areas, from the Library of Congress.

Cook County buildings are documented, including drawings, photographs, and notes, in the Historic American Buildings Survey and the Historic American Engineering Record collections from the Library of Congress.

The Great Chicago Fire. Documents and essays pertaining to the Chicago Fire published by The Chicago Historical Society and the Trustees of Northwestern University.